Thread: What have you been wrenching on lately?
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Old 08-08-19, 07:35 AM
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Sunbeam chainstays/BBs are so weird. Note the rest of the chainstay fixed inside the 'Little Old Oil Bath'. If you talk with NYCBSs who only collect pre WW1 bicycles they say this design is one of the definitive reasons Sunbeams are overly represented in bikes that remain perfectly rideable after a hundred years of use. And they said it would never last.
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